Analysis Of Beyonce's Music Video, Pretty Hurts

Even though media vaunts an iridescent image of what every girl should look like, the simple fact is just, it is impossible. It is because the pictures in the media are not true—they all have gone through lots of Photoshop. Only 5 percent of women have the body type seen in almost all advertisements. Besides, most of fashion models are thinner than 98 percent of American women. However, women still continue to do whatever they can in order to fit into that idea of ‘perfection’. Eating disorders have harassed who want to feel like they are ‘beautiful’, for years. Women are willing to do anything even though it can cause harm to their own self due to low self-esteem. Do you want your sister, friends or girl friends always feel depressed and doing harm to themselves, as they feel dissatisfied about their

There are beauty standards all over the world, but America has one of the most highest and unreachable standard of the all. In the article “Whose Body is This,” the author Katherine Haines reflects the issue on how narrow-minded society, magazine and the rest of media is depicting the perfect body. The ideal body in America is established as skinny, tall, perfect skin, tight body are characteristics that destroyed majority of woman’s self esteem (172). As girls get older and into their teen years, they have been brainwashed to need to look like the unrealistic, and photoshopped models in magazines and advertisements. Girls don’t feel comfortable to be in their own skin, because they were not taught to love themselves for who they are right in the beginning.

Many people think that the poem A Song, by Helen Maria Williams, is just a love letter when, in fact, it is more of an expression of her relationship with her inspiration of writing.

“Girl In A Country Song” provides an alternative equipment for living through the rules of how women and men should behave. Throughout the introduction of the video, the women are portrayed as weak and dressing in a way to only attract the male eye. This is seen through the way that the women desire the men’s attention and acceptance, which goes along with the societal norm of women being less than men. However, towards the end of the video, women are portrayed in a more dominant role. Teaching women viewers that they aren’t less worthy than the men, and that they should speak up against sexism is crucial. To summarize, the text teaches us that it is inappropriate to view girls as anything less than exceptional, which challenges American hegemony and ideology.

Has anyone ever hurt you so bad that you wanted revenge on them? It’s very common for people to gain a tremendous amount of weight after a bad breakup or after something devastating happens. But how rewarding is it to get your life back on track and show them what they're missing? Millions applied for this show, but Khloe Kardashian picked the contestants that she could relate to the most for the transformation of their lives. Revenge Body by Khloe Kardashian appeals to the audience pathos by sharing the client's traumatic stories and helping them get passed it. As well as in a way, helping the viewers at home connect with the clients and come to closure with their own past.

This is an inspirational song for an average teenage girl, but as I pointed out there were some contradictions to the lyrics and the meaning. They may want to see themselves as beautiful in every way possible, but the world is a puzzle and there is a piece that is gone because of what has become socially acceptable.

Girls all around the U.S.A strive to be society’s “perfect” image. Using makeup, social media, and even plastic surgery to fit a false image. An impractical image that can ruin one's self-esteem and others.

In the modern day media women are shown as to be too perfect to be true, Magazines show women how they are suppose to be, how they are suppose to ‘look like” by using photoshop to manipulate and sculpt a “perfect” female. Not only magazines portray this image but so does social media, Girls are expected to be ‘ Skinny, Blue eyes, Blonde with a perfect style and lifestyle’’ Making younger girls starve themselves and abuse their bodies to sculpt themselves out to be replicas of women how they have that so called perfect artificial image they present to the world. Girls/ Women are forgetting themselves and who they are. These girls are losing themselves along the journey not only losing their well-being but their identity from what makes them

The image of a woman’s body has always been the center of attention to society all over the world. Globally, anyone who thinks of a woman’s ideal body, immediately thinks of a thin body with no cellulite and no imperfections, a small waist and soft skin, between other descriptions that are considered “hot” and “good looking”. Females often feel pressured to attain society’s highest expectations because it is easier to fail them, rather than meet them. The music and other industries, like advertisements constantly portrays an ideal and beautiful body for women, in most cases thin. When women see these images and then look at their own bodies, which are most of the time different from what is portrayed as ideal in society’s eyes, they begin

The song “Royals” was released in 2013 by the artist Lorde. “Royals” was one of the first songs released by this artist and it was in her album titled Pure Heroin. “Royals” became Lorde’s first major hit as it dominated the pop genre chart. After listening to and interpreting the song "Royals," I argue that the theme of the song is focused on the way the songwriter views wealth and how her viewpoint contrasts with that of society. The songwriter emphasizes her indifference toward wealth and all that it can afford, while others hold wealth to a high esteem.

Self-esteem can hit an all-time low for women who find themselves pursuing these methods but still don’t find themselves measuring up to the women in the images. What these women don’t realize is that the images they are seeing are fictional and that the women’s bodies do not look that way in the real world. Yet these women are still trying to attain this body type. They are working for an unachievable goal, and that is to have a body that looks like the photo-shopped and airbrushed bodies that are shown in the media. Not only can the media cause women’s self-esteem to plummet, it can cause them to become over sexualized.

I want the audience to understand the pressure that is put on women to conform to beauty ideals which correlate with many horrible psychological effects such as low self-esteem, depression, and eating disorders. The standards of beauty promote many unhealthy body images which can influence women’s decisions to harm themselves in order to integrate into the mainstream western culture. Pressure to conform to beauty ideals starts from a very young age when little girls are introduced to fairy tales and barbie dolls who display beauty as having

It 's not a mystery that society 's ideals of beauty have a drastic and frightening effect on women. Popular culture frequently tells society, what is supposed to recognize and accept as beauty, and even though beauty is a concept that differs on all cultures and modifies over time, society continues to set great importance on what beautiful means and the significance of achieving it; consequently, most women aspire to achieve beauty, occasionally without measuring the consequences on their emotional or physical being. Unrealistic beauty standards are causing tremendous damage to society, a growing crisis where popular culture conveys the message that external beauty is the most significant characteristic women can have. The approval of prototypes where women are presented as a beautiful object or the winner of a beauty contest by evaluating mostly their physical attractiveness creates a faulty society, causing numerous negative effects; however, some of the most apparent consequences young and adult women encounter by beauty standards, can manifest as body dissatisfaction, eating disorders that put women’s life in danger, professional disadvantage, and economic difficulty.

Society creates a standard of beauty for women that often changes along with society due to a new perspective on what it means to be beautiful in our culture. These standards for beauty create what our society believes makes a woman desirable, attractive, perfect, and overall beautiful.  Which then enforces unhealthy and unrealistic beauty ideals that negatively affect women's self-image and their body image because society has attributed beauty to self worth. The result is with the ever changing standards of beauty means women use various ways to alter their bodies and appearance by clothing, makeup, hair, dieting, exercising, and even taking extreme measures to perfect their looks through surgery.

There are many beauty standards but weight and body size is slowly becoming the main focus. These standards give a false sense of hope of having the “perfect body.” Instead of letting beauty standards be socially accepted, people should be aware of the harm they cause. Celebrities are role models to various people around the world and they are criticized for their appearance. Many of these celebrities go out and get plastic surgery, Botox injections, and Silicone implants. People that a lot of money and higher status are more likely to be able to live up to these standards. Some women are willing to sacrifice comfort and tolerate the pain to achieve them.